[Albion] Manchester City vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[hans kraay fan club]

If the keeper has weak hands in that moment I can’t see why it’s disallowed. He pushes it onto Mitoma’s arm. I still think the result would have been a draw just wondering why keepers get so much protection.

If the keeper has his hands on the ball, and an opposition player plays that ball - how 'strong' or 'weak' he is is irrelevant. You can't challenge a keeper who has 'control of the ball'.

And if it touched Mitoma's arm at all (which it looks like it might have twice), then it is ruled out anyway.

I think Hooper (as ever) guessed - but had he given it, I'm pretty sure it gets ruled out antway.

 

[Audax]

Not sure - but he was certainly very 'excited' just before taking the penalty - which definitely led to some speedy ball-touching.

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So you're saying the pen should have been disallowed for hand ball?

 

[huzzah]

I have no idea why this exists, however my life just seems a smidge different after having seen it ... if it wasn't some hallucination:

 

[Redinpeace]

Manage to catch up on the match, actually thought BHA were unlucky not to win, one silver lining was seeing Pep doing his usual twisting to the ref at the end of the game.